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U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said abuses of religious freedom are worsening worldwide. But she failed to mention the religious-liberty battle raging at home.
WASHINGTON — U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said that the world is "sliding backwards" when it comes to guaranteeing religious freedom.
Speaking July 30 at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, the former first lady said, "When we consider the global picture and ask whether religious freedom is expanding or shrinking, the answer is sobering."
"Members of faith communities that have long been under pressure report that pressure is rising," Clinton said. "When it comes to this human right, this key feature of stable, secure, peaceful societies, the world is sliding backwards."
However, Clinton focused solely on the issue in other parts of the world, while the United States is engaged in threats to religious liberty posed by the Obama administration's contraception mandate.
Robert Royal, president of the Faith and Reason Institute, noted the irony of the moment.
"When Secretary Clinton warns about places where 'If your beliefs don't have government approval, beware,' you have to ask yourself, 'Like here?'" Royal said.
Congressman Frank Wolf, a Republican from Virginia and a well-known advocate for religious and human rights, said he had not heard the speech, but insisted that the administration's record speaks for itself.
"As St. Francis said, 'I'd rather see a sermon than hear one,' and whatever Secretary Clinton said, the Obama administration has a worse record on human and religious rights than any other administration."
"You don't find them aggressively pushing for religious freedom and human rights," said Wolf, recalling that the Obama administration hosted a state dinner for Chinese President Hu Jintao, even as the regime held Nobel Peace Prize winner Liu Xiaobo in prison and persecutes both Buddhists and Catholics.
Wolf said that, unlike the Reagan administration, the Obama administration makes no attempt to meet with those who suffer from persecution or to speak out on their behalf.
Clinton's speech coincided with the U.S. State Department's release of its annual "International Religious Freedom Report." The report painted a picture of declining religious freedom in many parts of the world.
In 2011, according to the report, "governments increasingly used blasphemy, apostasy and defamation of religion laws to restrict religious liberty, constrain the rights of religious minorities, and limit freedom of expression."
The year also saw "a rising tide of anti-Semitism," influenced in part by political events in the Middle East, which led to the destruction of synagogues and Jewish cemeteries in France, increased Holocaust denial and the growing popularity of an openly anti-Semitic party, the Jobbik party, in Hungary.
China, one of the "chronic violators of religious freedom," was singled out for a notable decrease in religious liberty in 2011, including increasing restrictions on Tibetan monks and nuns in the Tibetan Autonomous Region and other Tibetan areas.
Uighur Muslims and other religious groups that don't belong to China's official state-sanctioned "patriotic religious associations" also suffered from government crackdowns. Christian house churches were especially impacted, according to the report.
Vietnam, where "Christians, in particular, faced challenges," was cited for restrictions on religious freedom. The government has not allowed publication of the Bible in the modern H'mong language, despite agreeing to do so, and held religious prisoners in 2011. Buddhist monks were threatened — and in one case severely beaten.
Eritrea, Iran, North Korea, Sudan, Saudi Arabia, Uzbekistan and Myanmar, where the report did note that some restrictions had been lessened, were among the countries designated "Countries of Particular Concern" in the report.
The report said that the Coptic Christians in Egypt, where a government led by the Islamist Muslim Brotherhood has just come to power, are still undergoing persecution. The document recalled that in October Egyptian security guards attacked a predominantly Coptic group of demonstrators in Cairo, killing 25 people and injuring 350. Government officials have not been held accountable, according to the report.
Clinton said that she was "concerned that respect for religious freedom is quite tenuous, and I don't know if that's going to quickly be resolved. But since 2011 and the fall of the Mubarak regime, sectarian violence has increased. We don't think that there's been a consistent commitment to investigate and apply the laws."
Clinton said she had had "very emotional, very personal conversations with Christians in Egypt, who are deeply anxious about what the future holds for them and their country."
She appeared eager to give Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi's government the benefit of the doubt. She said that when she was recently in Egypt "[the issue of] religious freedom was very present behind closed doors and in the streets. President Morsi has said publicly that in his new government he will include Coptic Christians, secular citizens and a woman. So we are looking for him to follow through on what his promise was."
Libya was one of the countries where Clinton saw improvement. She said that the new Libyan regime is not enforcing some of the old laws that restricted religious freedom. Instead of repressing speech that might offend Muslims, Clinton said Libyans now see the value of "countering [such speech] with more speech that reveals the emptiness of the insults and lies."
Georgetown University's Thomas Farr, director of the Religious Freedom Project at the Berkley Center for Religion, Peace and World Affairs, who addressed the U.S. bishops in Atlanta in June on growing threats to religious freedom, had a generally favorable reaction to Clinton's speech.
"Overall, I think this was a very good speech," said Farr, who is considered a foremost authority on the issue of religious liberty, in an email to the Register. "I particularly liked the fact that the secretary talked about advancing religious freedom as a way to counter violent religious extremism."
"And — in one of the best parts of her remarks, again, in response to the final question — she said that nations must understand that they cannot be successful, secure or stable without religious freedom," Farr said.
However, Farr had two concerns about Clinton's speech.
"The first," he said, "is that if the secretary of state believes that religious freedom can contribute to the success, security and stability of nations — such as Egypt, Iraq, Pakistan or Afghanistan, each of whose stability is vital to the national security of the United States — then why has her State Department allocated so little authority and resources to the official responsible for advancing international religious freedom?
"Why is there no overarching diplomatic and national security strategy to advance religious freedom? Why does the [ambassador-at-large for international religious freedom] not report directly to the secretary of state, as do ambassadors-at-large for global women's issues and global AIDS? Why is the IRF ambassador isolated within the department, many levels removed from the secretary, with virtually no authority and very few resources? Why is there so little attention paid to religious freedom on the part of State Department counterterrorism officials?"
Farr also found Clinton's view of the content of religious freedom — what people and communities may do under the rubric of religious freedom — "quite narrow."
"She referred to belief, worship, forming the conscience, making moral choices for ourselves, our families and our communities," Farr said. "All of these are important constituents of religious freedom. But there is a public aspect of religious liberty that she rarely discusses, and certainly does not integrate into U.S. foreign policy: the right of religious individuals and communities to act publicly within both civil and political life."
"This is important in places like Egypt or other Muslim-majority nations that are struggling to develop democracies," Farr added. "As she noted, religious freedom has been shown to discourage religious extremism. But in Muslim countries, it is not simply the private right to worship that helps accomplish this goal.
"The key is inviting Muslim communities into the political life of the nation, accepting the benefits of, and the limits on, doing so. The key limit is full equality under the law for all religious individuals and communities."
Charlotte Hays writes
from Washington.
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The shepherds returned, glorifying and praising God for all the things they had heard and seen, which were just as they had been told.
—Luke 2:20 (NIV)
House churches in China love to celebrate Christmas—without Santa and the commercialization found in the west which, sadly, is now creeping into the profit-centric malls in China's cities. They revel in the opportunity to share about the coming of Jesus Christ and God's love to colleagues, friends and neighbors who usually do not mind attending special Christmas gatherings in the spirit of the season.
Increasingly, house churches plan elaborate programs with performances, such as ice-breakers, Christmas carols, dances and sketches—to till the soil of each heart—before culminating with an evangelistic message. Several rent public halls or banquet rooms in hotels and create a festive air with decorations of balloons, ribbons and artificial flowers.
Brother Kao says, "We found out that it was possible for us to rent meeting halls in some places that were usually used for wedding dinners. So, with the Christmas season fast approaching, we booked such halls at multiple locations in preparation for our Christmas evangelistic outreach," Kao continued. Then the church put together a program and began practicing hard on the short plays about two months before.
"There was this one hall that had just been used for a wedding banquet. When we arrived to put up our Christmas decorations, we found it was already beautifully done up so we merely added a few more Christmas touches. We had our church members invite their unsaved friends and relatives. Because Christmas is viewed as a Western celebration, many people are curious and open to finding out what it's all about, so they readily come."
The hall was packed with many first-time guests. The program began with the singing of some Christmas carols and everyone sang with gusto, even though they might not have understood what the lyrics meant. Then the plays followed, dramatizing the story of Noah and the flood, showing the depravity of man, and how only eight were saved. At the end of it, the pastor went up on stage, explained what the whole story meant and shared about man's need for a Savior before making an altar call.
Kao explained, "Each night at every location where we held this outreach program, an average of one hundred people would pray to become children of God. And because we had received the materials from Open Doors earlier, we were able to give each new believer a Bible and a book on the spot. We find that doing so helps them to further understand the decision they have made and enables them to grow in their new life in Christ."
"Please inform our brothers and sisters who are praying for us that we are putting the books you supplied to good use and giving them to new Christians," he voiced gratefully.
RESPONSE: Today I will pray for those who have not yet heard the Good News about Jesus Christ.
PRAYER: Thank God that house churches in China have such effective outreaches at Christmas time. Pray against hindrances and interferences from the local authorities.
Standing Strong Through The Storm (SSTS), a daily devotional message by SSTS author Paul Estabrooks. © 2011 Open Doors International. Used by permission.


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Per serving: 640 calories, 52 percent calories from fat, 37 grams total fat, 22 grams saturated fat, 223 milligrams cholesterol, 68 grams carbohydrates, .8 gram total fiber, 51 grams total sugars, 67 grams net carbs, 10 grams protein, 234 milligrams sodium.


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- Looking toward your future career
NOTE: Please bring a printed 50-word statement that summarises your research. The statement should be aimed at an educated but non-expert audience.
The course takes an evidence-based approach to writing. Participants will learn that publishing is a game and the more they understand the rules of the game the higher their chances of becoming publishing authors. They will learn that writing an academic article and getting it published may help with their careers but it does not make them better researchers, or cleverer than they were before their paper was accepted; it simply means they have played the game well.
Suitable for researchers in any discipline who are keen to learn how to write academic papers and articles efficiently and/or who have had papers rejected and are not really sure why.
If you want a better chance of your name on a paper, this is for you!
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Samsung released a mid-range Galaxy branded handset Gio nearly a couple of months ago. The handset sports a 3.2-inch screen with HVGA (320×480) resolution and is powered by an 800MHz processor.
The handset runs on Android 2.2 FroYo with TouchWIZ UI running on top of it. At the time of its launch, Samsung never mentioned anything about the Android 2.3 Gingerbread update for the handset.
However, at the middle of this month Samsung announced the Android 2.3 Gingerbread update for a bunch of Galaxy branded handsets. The Gio did feature in this list, but Sammy did not mention anything about the release date.
Now, the folks over at SamFirwmare.com have managed to get their hands on a leaked Android 2.3 Gingerbread firmware for the Galaxy Gio. The firmware has a build date of June 2, and is aimed for the European region. The leak suggests that Sammy is already working on the Gingerbread update for the Gio, and might as well release it within a month.
The firmware has no major bugs, and has been rooted by developers as well. The firmware's default language is Russian, and users manually need to change it to their desired language.


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A Chansey Operation (ラッキーのカルテ Chansey's Clinical Records) is the 47th episode of Pokémon: Indigo League.
Coming into a hospital, Doctor Proctor cures Ash's Pikachu. After being convinced that after a car crash he needs to heal the other Pokémon, Proctor places Ash, Misty, Brock, Jessie and James as his assistants. When a Dodrio attacks Proctor for attempting to inject an anesthetic, Proctor gets affected by the substance and goes to sleep. Ash, Brock and Misty go to heal the other Pokémon without his presence, while Jessie and James make another plan to steal all Pokémon.
Episode plot
Pikachu finds an apple which he swallows whole. Pikachu's voice sounds odd and Brock thinks the apple got stuck in its throat. They take Pikachu to a human hospital because it's the closest. The doctor there gets the apple out of Pikachu's throat. The doctor is then called by Nurse Joy who says there has been an accident involving some Pokémon stolen by Team Rocket, who are seriously injured and needs him to help take them.
Meanwhile, Team Rocket is at the scene of the accident and Jessie and James are arguing about who's fault it is that they got in an accident. Meowth is very sad because the charm on its head is missing.
At the hospital, Nurse Joy asks Dr. Proctor to help the hurt Pokémon. Dr. Proctor asks Nurse Joy out on a date, making her mad. Dr. Proctor says he will help after that and he gives Ash and his friends their uniforms, saying that he's the only person at the hospital and needs help. The hurt Pokémon start coming in and everyone starts working. Ash brings out Bulbasaur to hold down a Cubone, who is struggling in pain. Misty comforts the Cubone and it calms down. Dr. Proctor says Misty is a natural.
Team Rocket enters the hospital carrying more hurt Pokémon. Dr. Proctor asks Jessie out on a date. Jessie is impressed by Dr. Proctor. Ash asks Dr. Proctor not to help Team Rocket because they are bad guys. Dr. Proctor says his job is to heal, not to judge.
Meowth is crying over his missing charm. Chansey tries to cheer him up, but Chansey doesn't quite understand what Meowth wants. Ex: Meowth says," Somebody help me find my charm, I'll pay any price!" and Chansey gives him a bowl of rice. Chansey gets mad and slaps him to get him calmed down. Meanwhile, Misty gets a Voltorb out of a Weepinbell's mouth and Brock attaches a lost horn to a Pinsir. When Ash and Brock are to treat a Dodrio, Proctor decides to use an anesthetic. When he goes to, the Dodrio attacks and the anaesthetic is injected into Proctor and goes to sleep. Ash improvises and sends Squirtle to use Water Gun on Dodrio, then Pikachu electrocutes it. He goes to catch Dodrio, but Brock reminds him he must not capture any Pokémon, so Ash and Brock treat it.
Everyone, except Meowth, is helping heal the hurt Pokémon, even Jessie and James. Later, Jessie and James decide to steal the Pokémon. They take off their uniforms and jump onto a stretcher and say their motto. They don't get all the way through it because Meowth interrupts them by yelling that he wants his charm. Team Rocket pushes stretchers with arms at Ash and his friends. The stretchers trap them and James pulls out a big needle and says he's going to use it on Ash. A Chansey jumps in front of Ash to protect him. James asks Arbok and Weezing to attack Chansey, but they won't. Dr. Proctor says they won't attack Chansey because it healed them. Jessie gets mad at Dr. Proctor and throws a beaker at him. Dr. Proctor breaks the beaker with a scalpel. Dr. Proctor opens up and shows his coat to Team Rocket, which is lined with scissors, scalpels, and needles. James says they shouldn't mess with him and they turn to leave, but Ash and his friends break free and push the stretchers at Team Rocket.
Jessie is mad they didn't get any Pokémon but James says he got one. James pulls a Voltorb out of his pocket and it explodes, sending Team Rocket blasting off again. When they hit the ground, Meowth's charm pops out of his head, which was just embedded into his head. Meowth is very happy, but Jessie and James aren't.
In the hospital, Dr. Proctor thanks Ash and his friends for their help and asks them to stay and train to be doctors. Misty says she would like to, but she wants to learn a lot more about water Pokémon first. Ash and his friends leave the hospital and wave goodbye to Dr. Proctor.
- After the doctor agrees to help Ash, during the transition slide a Porygon can be seen, which marks one of three appearances of Porygon in the US anime. The second is in "Clefairy Tales", again on the same slide, while the third is on "A Way Off Day Off".
- The "Who's that Pokémon?" in this episode is Arbok.
- The doctor says that Pikachu would need 10,000 volts of power to recharge it and he uses a defibrillator to recharge it, but defibrillators are not supposed to go that high, the highest it normally goes is around 1700 volts so the defibrillator could not reach that level of power.
- When Doctor Proctor fell asleep, Jigglypuff's song could be heard in the background.
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Text by Bertrand Russell, "Philosophical Consequences" from The ABC of Relativity
Work produced as part of Jstchillin's exhibition series
Mansion is a virtual environment designed by artist Tabor Robak, exhibited as part of Jstchillin's ongoing series.
In 1993 Howard Rheingold wrote a remarkable book called The Virtual Community. In this book he gives what might best be called a personal account of the expanding culture of people communicating via computer networks. I asked him some questions about the relationship between virtual and traditional communities, most appropriately, via e-mail.
Howard Rheingold has been publishing books and articles on computer culture for many years. He is the multimedia columnist for Publish magazine and editor of Whole Earth Review. He has also been a consultant to the US office of Technology Assessment, and recently he took charge of Planet Wired a network project that will document the digital revolution with local examples, made accessible via the Net to a world-wide audience.
More than merely informative, his book The Virtual Community is above all a highly personal account of the way in which people are using computer networks as communication devices, or rather how they are engaging in Computer Mediated Communication (CMC), the term Rheingold prefers. Rheingold maintains that Computer Mediated Communication creates a new sense of community; people from around the world are linked together in public discussions, people who exchange ideas and messages, share interests and work together, outside of the constraints of geographical space and across social barriers.
In his book he provides us with a somewhat formal definition of virtual communities, which he describes as "social aggregations that emerge from the Net when enough people carry on those public discussions long enough, with sufficient human feeling, to form webs of personal relationships in cyberspace". Rheingold has himself been actively involved in one of the early network communities in the US, The Well, based in San Francisco.
Using networking technologies within the context of traditional geographic communities produces Community Networks. I began by asking Rheingold to explain ...
Captured PlayStation3 video from Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion, edited to reflect the seamless passing of game time and "real" time. One minute of "real" time equals approximately 30 minutes of game time. The resulting 48 minute video records the passing of one game day.
References to playable characters, AI characters, and accompanying sound effects have been edited from the video in an effort to focus on the notion of a virtual space with the possibility of non-virtual habitation, defined in part by the passing of game time during the observers "real" time. The health meter, magic meter, stamina meter, weapon and magic selections and the game compass have been unedited as a digital referent in the hyperreal environment of the game engine.
Painting the entire gallery a uniform bright green, Guidetti employs an unfixed/in-flux context created by the production environment of chroma-key (green-screen) video compositing technology. Rather than providing a blank neutral space it serves only as a temporary stand-in, demanding to be replaced. The viewer is confronted with this provisional setting in a state of waiting, without a final composite image. Markers for motion tracking and spatial reference placed around the space further enforce the absence of context.
Within the environment an array of equipment actively measures the physical, visual, and acoustic properties of the space. Reminiscent of tools used for ghost hunting, the instruments attempt to describe something non- visible/physical and provide some concreteness to something abstract. A video monitor among the equipment displaying computer generated 3D renderings of the exhibition shown in various perspectives and states, further complicates the ability to reach a complete, relative conception of the space.
GreenScreen (extrActor) (2005) is a greenscreen made of hydroponically grown grass which allows the viewers to insert themselves into virtual video backgrounds, which they can choose via remote control.
In this clip, Wolf Lieser, Director of the Digital Art Museum [DAM] and initiator of the d.velop Digital Art Award, interviews artist Lynn Hershman Leeson about her life and work. This year, Leeson won the 4th develop digital art award [ddaa] for lifetime achievement in the field of new media art.
Dust Storm (Dalhart, Texas) 2007 is based on a single archival photograph of a storm from the 1930s American Dust Bowl, a man-made environmental catastrophe caused by a surge in petroleum based power, and a major contributor to what became the Great Depression. No moving images of the event are known to exist. The production of this work involved the virtual reconstruction - based on hundreds of the artists own photographs and films - of a ten-mile square section of Texan landscape close to the town of Dalhart, a landscape dotted with windmills, farms and fences. This documentation was subsequently enhanced by publicly accessible satellite and topographical data. Once activated, a virtual storm unfolds in a sculptural and constantly random manner within the reconstructed landscape.
Note: John Gerrard will give an artist's talk at MOMA on October 25th, at 7pm, for their Modern Mondays series. More information here.


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Video: Making a Hirth Coupling
This 9-minute video covers machining a Hirth coupling.
We occasionally get technical questions from our readers out there in the trenches. Some of these we editors can handle, others need more in-depth research or even expert comment. Knowing where to find the information is one of the trade magazine's services to its readers. Increasingly, the Internet makes this locating function easier as search engines get better and better.
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Recently, a request came in asking if we had any information on machining Hirth couplings. These are specifically designed connections that by virtue of their geometry provide a very strong, accurate and repeatable joint for mating parts.
The email asked if we had done any tutorials on the machining of these couplings in the magazine or if we knew of video presentations. I drew a blank because PM is mostly about precision turned parts. However, Pete Zelinski, who writes for sister publication Modern Machine Shop and is a great metalworking source in his own right, came up with this video. It's about 9 minutes long and covers machining a Hirth coupling. In this Internet world, ask and you get.


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Do you have a favorite Studio Ghibli film? You know, the anime house behind such wonderful movies as Princess Mononoke, My Neighbor Totoro, and Castle in the Sky. In Japan, kids and adults alike love Ghibli films. But is there one Ghibli film—rather, Hayao Miyazaki-helmed Ghibli film—that the country likes best?
According to Shunkan News, Japanese polling site Research Panel asked 136,295 to list their favorite Studio Ghibli flick from Miyazaki. Here are the results:
9. Ponyo: 2.1 percent
8. Howl's Moving Castle: 2.5 percent
7. Porco Rosso: 4.2 percent
6. Princess Mononoke: 4.9 percent
5. Kiki's Delivery Service: 9.1 percent
4. Spirited Away: 10.9 percent
3. Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind: 14.8 percent
2. Castle in the Sky: 17.6 percent
1. My Neighbor Totoro: 24.3 percent
Talk about a razor's worth of difference. Some of the answers seem almost too close to call.
Within those numbers, there were people (yes, people!) who had never seen a Studio Ghibli film. What, you say you haven't seen a Ghibli film, either? It would be rather hard not to see one in Japan, seeing how they often rebroadcast them in primetime TV and sometimes show them at school. Out of the 130,000-some people polled, 9.6 percent had never seen any of these Studio Ghibli films. Here's the breakdown by age:
Teens: 5.2 percent
Twenties: 4.2 percent
Thirties: 5.3 percent
Forties: 9.8 percent
Fifties: 10.6 percent
Sixties: 18.3 percent
Seventies: 29.0 percent
Eighties: 33.6 percent
There's an obvious generation gap here. That's being said, I want to believe that every 90 year old polled had seen all of these movies. I want to believe that 90 year old people were polled.
Ghibli nerds, if they've made it this far, are probably pointing out in the comments section that Nausicaä is not a Studio Ghibli film per se, as it was a Topcraft production, made before Ghibli was established in 1985. Topcraft became Studio Ghibli.
For me, I'd say Kiki's Delivery Service and My Neighbor Totoro are my favorite Studio Ghibli films, with Grave of the Fireflies being my favorite non-Miyazaki Ghibli film. Because I like to cry? My favorite Miyazaki film is that wonderful Lupin the Third flick, The Castle of Cagliostro, which was made before Studio Ghibli existed.
I'd say Ponyo is my least favorite. I'd say it's everyone's least favorite.
Hit us up in the comments with your favorites.
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Authorities say an air taxi has crashed at the Soldotna Airport in Alaska, killing all 10 people on board.
National Transportation Safety Board investigator Clint Johnson says the pilot and nine passengers were killed in the crash at the airport late Sunday morning.
Meagan Peters of Alaska State Troopers says the fixed-wing aircraft was fully engulfed in flames before firefighters could get to the plane. The victims have not yet been identified.
The accident happened around 11:20 a.m. Johnson said initial reports had the accident happening as the plane took off.
The NTSB identified the aircraft in a release Sunday as a de Havilland Otter Air Taxi. The NTSB is sending a team to investigate the crash.


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I imagine a room that seems to have only one woman in it, with her guitar. But she only seems to be alone. The muse of songwriting is there with her, invisible even to her. As she sings and plays a new song, other musicians are drawn to her, and they come and listen. Some take out instruments and join in. Soon her song is over, and another singer starts up where she left off, the muse having gone to the new singer. More musicians join in, and more singers take up the task in turn. Soon, there is a full band, inspired by each other and this invisible presence. And then the moment passes, but the songs remain. I am happy to present them now.
Heather Styka: Lucy and Sarah
Heather Styka is that woman alone, but her song Lucy and Sarah soon draws a sympathetic fiddler to her side. No wonder. The song is a remarkable ballad of depression and the power of friendship. It's not all that easy to make me cry, but the quiet power of this one did the trick. The impact of the song builds through the details of what Styka leaves out, as well as what she puts in. Her performance does the writing justice. Other songs on Lifeboats for Atlantis have fuller arrangements, but the writing is always there, and Styka gives each song just what it needs.
Jenn Rawling: Big Old Lake
Jenn Rawling is the one whose name is on the album cover, but Take the Air is the work of the duo or Rawling and Basho Parks. Big Old Lake has Rawling on guitar and Parks on fiddle joined by Willem Joersz on standup bass, and the interplay of this trio, plus a drummer playing with brushes for subtle accents, carries the sound here. The song describes the realization that a place the narrator has been away from is no longer home. The situation is bittersweet, and that comes through beautifully. Elsewhere, Rawling and Parks add banjo, keyboards, and even trumpet on three songs. It adds up to some unusual textures for folk-based music, but all makes sense when you hear it.
The Good Intentions: The Sound of Time Passing
First of all, a consumer warning. The Good Intentions heard here are a British folk/ Americana band whose only previous album was Poor Boy. There is also an American group called The Good Intentions, and there is a rock band called Good Intentions, without the The.
The concept of British Americana is an interesting one. It's not hard to imagine an American musician writing these songs, but the performances here are both more restrained and more polished than an American band might have done. That means that the pleasures of this album are subtle, but they do get under your skin. These Good Intentions are a trio, all of whom sing, and the vocal harmonies are one of the things that make this album something special. The Sound of Time Passing is a sweetly nostalgic song that shows just how beautifully the group's approach can benefit a song.
Nancy K Dillon: New Train
On Rose's Guide to Time Travel, Nancy K Dillon's songs are pulled between folk and rock. On New Train, this tension comes out in the interplay between the haunting electric guitar and the fiddle. The song is a folk-gospel number, but the setting here gives this kind of song a new power. Elsewhere on the album, there are more folkish numbers, but that creative tension is always there. Dillon's strong vocals and emotional commitment to the material hold the whole thing together and make it memorable.
Dave McGraw and Mandy Fer: Forget the Diamonds
Forget the Diamonds is essentially a rock song, and a fine one. But the electric guitar player has left my imaginary room, and the arrangement is acoustic. No matter. The power that the best rock songs convey is here, along with some tasty fiddle lines in the middle. The quieter moments on this album reveal just how much of a joy it would be to hear these songs performed by just the duo of Mandy Fer and Dave McGraw, But the arrangements here give the songs extra bite, and they thrive under this treatment. Both Fer and McGraw have turns on lead vocals, and each holds their own quite nicely in the fuller arrangements.


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Cover: Colorized light micrograph of Vibrio cholerae bacteria (magnification, ×1850). Researchers are looking at how V. cholerae grows on chitonous surfaces and how this affects the spread of pathogenic traits through horizontal gene transfer (see p. 64). (Image © James Cavallini/Science Source.)
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Cover ImageVaccines are crucial for controlling the spread of influenza, but currently are only effective against a limited mix of strains. A universal vaccine remains elusive, but progress is being made (see p. 433). (Image © James King-Holmes/ Science Source.)
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March 26, 2018
How Tax Reform Affects Homeowners
Posted in Buying, Selling, and Market News by Sonja Riveland
New tax legislation was signed into law at the end of 2017, and it included some significant changes for homeowners. These changes took effect in 2018 and do not influence your 2017 taxes. Here's a brief overview of this year's tax changes and how they may affect you*.
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January 10, 2018
Empty Nesters: Remodel or Sell?
Posted in Buying, Selling, and Living by Sonja Riveland
Your kids have moved out and now you're living in a big house with way more space than you need. You have two choices – remodel your existing home or move. Here are some things to consider about each option.
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May 28, 2015
Inside the Vacation Home Boom
Posted in Buying by Sonja Riveland
The value of most people's primary home has gone up significantly in the past few years, giving them more confidence to extend their real estate investment to a second home. Increased net worth from the strong stock market, along with low interest rates, have made buying a second home more feasible. Many baby boomers are shopping for a place to vacation at now, and retire to later.
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Why Can't I have a Souvenir Cup?
Since I never seem to find myself in a place that my hometown (from across the state) Tigers like to visit, I'm usually limited to one or two live games in a year. This year, I only had one chance and that day was last Saturday as Detroit visited Baltimore for what promised to be an easy four-game series. Well, let's just say that neither the game nor the series went the way they were supposed to go. The Tigers hammered Daniel Cabrera in the first inning but then managed to not only let the Orioles back into the game but even found a way to lose it. And they dropped 2 of the four games. So, I'm not writing about the game or the series. I'm writing about what I saw at the game instead.
First off, If you've never been to Camden Yards, go. The tickets are cheap, the views are great and chances are that if you came to watch another team play the Orioles, you're going to go home happy. However, I have a bone to pick with the management. Why can't I buy a beer in a souvenir cup? I don't want a Pepsi. I don't want a Diet Pepsi. I want a beer and I want it in a plastic cup that has the Oriole's season schedule and whatever happens to be the catch-phrase of the year on it. I do this everywhere I go and up til now it hasn't been a problem. Personally, I'm a huge fan of the cup I got from Yankee Stadium because I can spit sunflower seed husks into it and it feels like I'm somehow spitting on the Yankees. That's a good feeling. But how can I spit on the Orioles if they won't give me a cup? Yes, I finally broke down and bought a lemonade because it was really freakin' hot but a part of me is still outraged. It's un-American.
And speaking of un-American, the Orioles tossed out a special welcome to the Venezuelan Embassy, employees of which happened to be in attendance at Saturday's game. I suppose this shouldn't have come as a surprise since half the players on the field had some sort of Venezuelan connection and we were only an hour's drive from Washington D.C. And it was nice to see some of the Venezuelan players come through during the game; for instance, Miguel Cabrera hit a three-run shot in the first inning. But there's just something a little strange about a group of people enjoying the classic American pastime while their president says things like: "I hereby accuse the North American empire of being the biggest menace to our planet." I'm just saying…
But, despite the unfortunate ending to the game, the crowd's even more unfortunate adoration of "the wave" and the disproportionately large and drunk meat-head a few rows in front of me, it was good to see my team play. It gives you a similar kind of feeling to the one you get when you find out that the blog you (kind of) help write has now moved up from fifth to fourth place in the standings. At this rate, we might even make the playoffs! There are playoffs, right?


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I gotta hit you up with the new G-Five Clive mixtape...its entitled "Summa of 88"...shout outs to Queenie V are included, so give it a listen. My favorite track is "Nun Like Dis"-and it's not just because my name is in it. Point blank Clive needs to get signed, so if you know someone who knows someone whose baby moms brother knows homeboy from round the way who knows someone..holla at me! (and im not just saying that, he's good shit...CLICK THE PICTURE & download this!!!
01. Do My Thang (Intro)
02. Summa of 88
03. Wat You Want?!?!
04. Nun Like Dis ft. Arafat Yates
05. Ooh Ahh
06. Tweeters 'n Cones ft. Arafat Yates & Scoopay
07. DateLine: 1988 (PSA)
08. Top of Da Globe ft. 4th Letter
09. House for Love (Interlude)
10. Este Casa ft. J-Da Rula
11. Blew Berry Sky
12. Clientele Kidz 1.0 ft. J-Da Rula
13. Channel 88 (Skit)
14. Cinderellas (88 Slippers Remix) ft. Lord Fuego
15. Love Mite
16. Kick It 'n Shit ft. Miss Jillz
17. Yall Kno Da Deal ft. DJ Vic Mase & D-Hawk
18. Soopa PHunk
19. All Street Meters ft. J-Da Rula
20. Cocaine, Scarface
21. Murakami Baby (Outro)
Arafat Yates: Track 4, 6, 8, 10, 14, 15, 18, 19, 20
Fundamental: Track 2, 5
Mickey Bizz: Track 11
Choc: Track 1, 7, 16
Sinima: Track 3
Monday, July 14, 2008
Summa of '88
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Labels: artist i love, G5 Clive, g5 stay live, M1 PLATOON, mixtapes
smoke a l to this...
So i have become obsessed with N.E.R.D..and I was so anti at first, but I love them so much, like the entire shit is fiyah. Hot fiyah! Get on it sons and daughters....So today's discussion is about renewing yourself. Finding out exactly who you are. I feel as though it is an ongoing journey. Despite my outer appearance, the words that come out of my mouth, the poetry that I write...i still don't have a complete and total true vision of myself quite yet. Like my painting is almost complete, but I still gotta fill in the colors-that type of thing, ya dig? So I started out with the underwear thing, I figured that feeling beautiful underneath your clothes was a positive step in figuring out the beauty within (like the Dove commercials lol). I found myself prancing around my house in panties and a strapless, dancing to N.E.R.D of course, I felt uniquely beautiful, like only I could offer what Kimmie E offers to this world. Its like my drawls created this inside understanding, like the leopard print was speaking to my soul...i won't even lie it gave me hella new confidence, like true confidence, not the boxed type that rubs off as "bitch", but the confidence where your like "damn i wanna know that girl..." and then i smoked trees in my big comfy armchair..hell yea...inner beauty is the shit
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With a woman on the campaign trail for the American presidency and the first woman president at Harvard, there's no reason to deprive the opposite sex of such meaty theatrical roles.
Shakespeare's "Macbeth" is a play about overweening pride, a lust for life, and power beyond the normal – ambitions generally considered wired into the male genes. However, with a woman on the campaign trail for the American presidency and the first woman president at Harvard, there's no reason to deprive the opposite sex of such meaty theatrical roles.
Or so the thinking goes at Actors' Shakespeare Project, which has opened its fourth season with an all-female production of "Macbeth," directed by Brandeis theater faculty member Adrianne Krstansky. The notion has its pluses and minuses, but the cast goes at the central theme of "blood begets blood" without let-up.
The payoff comes in the play's other major subject: the guilt accompanying the actions to rob the ill-got gains of any sweetness. Without exception, the women understand and express this concept with a special poignancy.
In the capable hands of Krstansky, the scenes range across the odd-shaped space of
Boston University's Studio 102, which is cut by two huge pillars and a two-story staircase at one end, used to good effect for some spectacular entrances and exits.
For the viewer, the issue of women playing men is noted at first and then accepted as the drama unfolds its fury. Marya Lowry plays Macbeth as a man haunted by urges to succeed beyond his position from his first entrance. Lowry has a powerful, low voice and a manner of walking in a long-stepped stride to create the physical metaphor of a man on the move.
She also speaks Shakespeare's poetry with precision and striking enunciation, bringing a ringing clarity to the unforgettable soliloquies. As Lady Macbeth, Paula Plum, one of the most accomplished actors of the Boston theatrical community, delivers a different sensibility.
She's more a help-mate and follower than leader once she pushes her husband into the first murder. It's as if she only had the courage at the start and then falters. Her interpretation fits well into the concept of a female Macbeth, because there's never a sense of rivalry in this partnership.
Plum's sleepwalking scene is a marvel of rushing thoughts and writhing limbs, as if she's forgotten what she meant to do and cannot rest until she remembers.
Yet missing between Lowry and Plum is the sexual connection that usually fuels the couple as if their private life in bed were always in their thoughts. In this production, Krstansky has transferred that energy to the three witches.
Bobbie Steinbach makes a fearful lead witch, then transforms into the stern but decent King Duncan, and next takes on the drunken Porter at the gate.
Jacqui Parker as Banquo and Sarah Newhouse as Macduff (and in the short scene of her murder, doubling as Lady Macduff ) further anchor the cast in their dignified portrayals of two good men victimized by Macbeth.
Although in this production of "Macbeth" Actors' Shakespeare Project lives up to its mission to present the texts of Shakespeare's plays cleanly, to make them live according to the language and motivations of the characters, one could wish for more of a show of pageantry. This play is also a military exercise, needing the contrast of the banners and marching men, or at least a royal retinue beyond the numbers fielded here.
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Any revolutionary, or revivalist, or champion, must understand the currents that drive the society he lives in, in order to reverse those currents.
On a side note, looking up thesaurus.com, I found that synonyms for 'revolutionary' are anarchistic, rebel, defiant..you get the idea =.= and that is a simple symptom of the currents that we live in. Branding people who bring change as 'rebels'. People who practise religion as 'fundamentalists'. Reminds me of the time I was in form 4, seniors used to brand juniors who were a bit friendly as 'social'. And that term is derogatory.
Which isn't unusual. People in power determine the language that we use. Why do we have so many arabic words in the malay language? Because in the olden days Arab trade was powerful and spanning the globe, and Arabic was commonplace as the language of Islam and the Quran.
So these days the culture we practise reflect the currents that sweep over us. not fighting that current is giving it legitimacy. For example, why do we not push for having tea and scones for breakfast? Because we think nasi lemak and roti canai are awesome. Nasi lemak and roti canai, are, in our minds, legitimate breakfasts.
Why do we not fight injustice then?
Why do we fight, or at least dislike, people who look too 'alim'?
Now think.
This is what every revivalist understands.
I'm not saying this is right and that is wrong. That is up to you, dear reader, to decide whether the currents pushing you are pushing you towards heaven, or otherwise.
And if you think the current situation is wrong, keep on reading.
To be fair, the currents are very strong, and have had a headstart for hundreds of years, and have engulfed and drowned many of the unwary. Many people are trapped, unable to swim away, not even wanting to swim.
We must show them the currents are filled with dirt and filth, and teach them to swim away, so that they themselves could teach others to swim as well. The currents are strong, yes, and this is an uphill task. Or upriver, if you prefer.
And this is what every revivalist understands.
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ESA's new camera follows disintegration of a comet
The continuing disintegration of Comet 73P/Schwassmann-Wachmann 3 has allowed ESA scientists to see into the interior of the comet. Using a revolutionary camera attached to the ESA Optical Ground Station on Tenerife, they have followed the detailed twists and turns of various comet fragments.
The superconducting camera, SCAM, is an ultra fast photon counting camera, developed by ESA. It is cooled to just 300 thousandths of a degree above absolute zero. This enables its sensitive electronic detectors, known as superconducting tunnel detectors, to register almost every single photon of light that falls into it. As such, it is the perfect instrument with which to detect fast and faint changes in the fragments of the comet.
Comet 73P/Schwassmann-Wachmann 3 is a short-period comet that approaches the Sun every 5.4 years. Two apparitions ago, in 1996, the comet nucleus split into five pieces (Fragments A, B, C, D, E) of which 3 (B, C, E) were still visible at its 2001 return.
When it approached the Sun again this year, seven fragments were initially observed, indicating that the comet was breaking apart again. Indeed, as astronomers watched, further fragments broke off. Fragment B alone produced at least seven new pieces. At present, about 40 fragments are visible, most of which are likely to be very small and with irregular and short-lived activity.
SCAM was attached to the one-metre ESA Optical Ground Station telescope on 7 May 2006, when the disintegrating comet was observed . Every few microseconds, the camera reads out the number of photons that have touched it and their colour. Using the unprecedented accuracy of the camera, ESA scientists charted the evolution of the dust and gas envelopes associated with each fragment for two hours. Now they must analyse the results.
In particular they will be looking for differences in the size and shape of the fragments and also any colour differences between them that might indicate compositional differences. Other studies are made possible by SCAM's unrivalled time resolution. Outbursts and activity from each fragment can be traced down to changes that occur on a timescale of one minute. In addition, as the dust and gas particles released from the fragments move with velocities between 0.5 and 1 kilometres per second, the observations will allow the interaction of the gas and dust flow to be studied for the two fragments closest to one another.
Comet 73P/Schwassmann-Wachmann 3 is one of the comets that was considered as a potential target for ESA's Rosetta mission. In 1995 even before its initial splitting, it was abandoned in favour of comet 46P/Wirtanen. After the launch delay of 2003, ESA decided not to re-select 73P/Schwassmann-Wachmann 3 as the replacement Rosetta target, because of the comet's volatile behaviour. In 2014, Rosetta will rendezvous and land on the Jupiter-family comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko.
For more information:
Rita Schulz, ESA – for questions on the comet
Email: Rita.Schulz @ esa.int
Didier Martin, ESA - for questions on the SCAM camera
Email: Didier.Martin @ esa.int
Zoran Sodnik and Christian Erd, ESA - for questions on the OGS optical station
Email: Zoran.Sodnik @ esa.int, Christian.Erd @ esa.int


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Restaurant Assistant Manager- Red Robin
- Employer
- Red Robin
- Location
- Columbia, MD
- Posted
- Oct 20, 2019
- Closes
- Oct 22, 2019
- Ref
- 422925709
- Function
- Food Service, Server, Management
- Industry
- Restaurant
- Career Level
- Experienced (Non-Manager)
- Hours
- Full Time
Restaurant Assistant Manager - Start at $57k / yrAt Red Robin our Restaurant Managers support and ensure that the restaurant operates within Red Robin International guidelines, while meeting/exceeding sales and profitability objectives established during the budgeting process.RESPONSIBILITIESEnsure company policy and Brand Equity Standards are followed.Optimize profits by controlling food, beverage and labor costs.Hiring, training and developing new hourly team members.Increasing sales by ensuring guest satisfaction and prompt problem resolution.Maintain an overall management style in accordance with our established best practices.Provide leadership and direction to all team members to ensure efficient operation.Ensure food quality and availability.Prepare and present hourly team member reviews.Oversee and supervise all beverage purchasing.Complete all tasks assigned by General Manager on time.Experience Preferred/Required:2+ years of Restaurant Management experience preferred.HS degree or equivalent preferredHas strong knowledge of commonly-used concepts, practices, and procedures in a restaurant.Relies on experience and judgment to plan and accomplish goals.Must have ability to accurately handle money, make change, process credit card transactions and have strong menu knowledge.Performs a variety of tasks. A certain degree of creativity and latitude is required.Must be 21 years of age.Passion for the business and compassion for people.Outstanding leadership and communication skills.Ability to recruit, develop and motivate team members.Must be able to create fun in a fast-paced and stressful environment.Must be able to lift approximately 50 lbs.Typically works under general supervision and reports to a GM.Red Robin is an equal opportunity and e-verify employer, committed to a diverse workforce. Red Robin independent franchisees each hire their own employees and establish their own terms and conditions of employment, which may differ from those described.Red Robin is an Equal Opportunity & E-Verify Employer


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November 9, 2012
Your readers don't care about your organization and its products. They care about themselves and their needs.
So to sell your products, services and ideas, you need to show how your organization can fill your readers' needs. To do so, transition your message from features into advantages into benefits.
The feature is an attribute of your product, service, program or idea. For instance, "The new MacBook Pro features the latest quad-core processors and up to 16GB of 1600MHz memory."
However, people don't buy features — not in products and services or in information.
Translate into the advantage.
The advantage is what the feature does — the reason that the feature is important. "That's important because it makes computing faster and more powerful," for instance.
But people don't buy advantages, either.
The benefit is why your customer will care — what the feature will do for them. For example, "That means you can do things that once were possible only on a desktop, anywhere the job takes you."
People buy benefits.
The problem is, most readers can't get from "quad-core processors" to "do things you've never done on a laptop" by themselves. In fact, sales research tells us that some 70 percent of our readers can't translate from advantages to benefits without help, says Linda Miller, president of The Marketing Coach.
So don't rely on your readers to translate. That's your job.
The verb is the story.
"A story should be a verb, not a noun," said Byron Dobell, former editor of Esquire. That's another reason to focus on benefits: They're the story.
Features are nouns — processors and memory, for example.
Advantages are modifiers like faster and more powerful.
Benefits are verbs, such as do, create and render.
Once you've identified your features, advantages and benefits, you'll want to lead with the benefits and then substantiate with the features. Focus on your reader's needs first, and then follow up with your organization and its information.
Here's how it's done, in a lead news release paragraph from a PRSA Silver Anvil-winning campaign.
Lead with the benefits:
Employers now have a better way to measure, monitor and manage employee absences …
Substantiate with the features:
… thanks to UnumProvident Corporation's (NYSE: UNM) expanded online Comparative Reporting & Analysis (CR&A) information services.
How can you sell your organization and its products by focusing on your readers and their needs first
Copyright © 2012 Ann Wylie. All rights reserved.
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